Libros de James Davies

Sedados

• 320 páginas
• En Gran Bretaña, casi una cuarta parte de la población adulta toma un medicamento psiquiátrico al año, lo que supone un aumento de más del 500% desde 1980 y las cifras siguen creciendo. Sin embargo, a pesar de esta epide...

Mitos, Monstruos Y Caos De La Antigua Grecia

• 64 páginas
• Si algo sabían hacer los dioses griegos era pelearse entre ellos, y cuando se enfurecían castigaban ¡a los humanos! Monstruos famosos, como Medusa o el Minotauro, por su parte, se la pasaban aterrorizando a la gente. ¿Cóm...

Meet The Pirates

• 64 páginas
• There's so much to digest w hen it comes to History - how do you know w here to begin? These incredible short introductions are just the thing for readers aged 6+ who are beginning to explore ancient history. Get to know the basics on Pirates from...

The Works Of Hesiod, Callimachus, And Theognis

• This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the..

Sound Knowledge: Music And Science In London, 1789-1851

• 257 páginas
• What does it mean to hear scientifically? What does it mean to see musically? This volume uncovers a new side to the long nineteenth century in London, a hidden history in which virtuosic musical entertainment and scientific discovery intersected in remar...

Meet The Ancient Egyptians

History Of England: (1603-1690) From The Accession Of James I. To The Battle Of The Boyne

• 220 páginas
• This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work....

Hesiod And Theognis

• 184 páginas
• Hesiod and Theognis is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1873. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other...

A Relation Of A Voyage To Sagadahoc

• 138 páginas
• This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.

The Endgame

• The endgame tends to be the neglected side of the game of go. This is strange indeed, for it also tends to be where the outcome is decided, and frequently accounts for about half the stones played.

Life And Death

• 160 páginas
• The approach to life-and-death problems used in this book is to emphasize the status of standard groups. Most life-and-death problems in books are presented in the following manner: Black to play and kill; or White to play and live; or Black to play and...

38 Basic Josekis

• In the game of go, the opening moves focus on the corners of the board. Over the thousands of years of go playing, this aspect of the game has been intensively studied and a large number of opening formulas, or josekis, have been discovered and refined....

Tesuji

• 208 páginas
• Tesujis are the tactics of short range combat in the game of go. This volume presents over three hundred examples and problems of them, aimed at training the reader to read and spot the right play in all sorts of tactical situations. It covers a wide rang...

Attack And Defense

• The middle game of go often appears chaotic, but there is order in the chaos, as this book plainly reveals. The result of a joint effort by a tournament-winning Japanese professional player and an experienced American go writer, Attack and Defense lays...

Romantic Anatomies Of Performance

• 277 páginas
• Romantic Anatomies of Performance takes as its subject the great virtuoso performers of the nineteenth century, examining the ways in which they thought of their own extraordinary gifts, the ways their contemporaries envisioned them, and how they have...

The Economics Of Wealth Distribution

• 1312 páginas
• This comprehensive two-volume collection includes seminal and classic articles that are key in the development of economic analysis of the distribution of wealth.

When Worlds Collide

• 204 páginas
• We thought it beneficial for others within sight of or already within such times together might find humor as a means to help adjust to this abrupt change, especially if they just let life unfold around them. Why – because most situation...

Lateral Gains

• When Shawn Serrell, a reporter for the Sheriton Post, foils an attempted robbery at Conway Plaza, he becomes a celebrity of sorts. A bachelor with a nose for news, he earns a bonus as well as a promotion to the mobile news unit. The police and Serrell&aci...

Lateral Gains

• When Shawn Serrell, a reporter for the Sheriton Post, foils an attempted robbery at Conway Plaza, he becomes a celebrity of sorts. A bachelor with a nose for news, he earns a bonus as well as a promotion to the mobile news unit. The police and Serrell&aci...

Hesiod, And Theognis (1873)

• 176 páginas
• Hesiod, And Theognis (1873) is a book written by James Davies that explores the works of two ancient Greek poets, Hesiod and Theognis. The book provides a comprehensive analysis of their poems, including their themes, literary techniques, and cultural...